Deer Hollow Farm
Up in Rancho San Antonio, a mile’s walk from the parking lots, Deer Hollow Farm keeps the Grant family’s old homestead working, with animals, an orchard and a garden. The City of Mountain View runs it.
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Deer Hollow Farm is a working homestead in the Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve. The City of Mountain View’s Recreation Division runs its programs, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District owns the land and buildings, and the Friends of Deer Hollow Farm raise money for its animals and classes. (City of Mountain View, Friends of Deer Hollow Farm)
The Grant family bought the land in the 1850s and worked it for almost 80 years, raising wheat, horses and dairy cows and taking their butter to San Francisco by wagon each week. (Mountain View Voice)
Chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, goats, sheep, pigs and a cow live on the farm, and fresh eggs and orchard fruit are sold when there are some. The restored Grant Ranch Cabin shows how people lived in the late 1800s, and an apple shed from the 1850s houses the nature center. (Wikipedia)
Park at Rancho San Antonio County Park off Cristo Rey Drive and walk about a mile, or bike in from the end of St. Joseph Avenue. The farm is free and closed on Mondays; pack out your garbage, as there are no bins. (City of Mountain View, Mountain View Voice, Friends of Deer Hollow Farm)
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